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A Real-Life Rock Groupie Inspired Miley Cyrus’s Drive-Away Dolls Cameo
Ethan Coen’s new caper takes cues from Cynthia “Plaster Caster,” an artist known for casting the erect penises of famous rock stars in plaster.
But the artist behind the coveted penis replicas in the film, hippie chick Tiffany Plastercaster (played by Miley Cyrus in an uncredited cameo) is based on a real person: the late Cynthia Albritton, a.k.a. One of her first subjects was Jimi Hendrix, whose 1968 replica was nicknamed “the Penis de Milo”; she went on to make more than 50 phallic re-creations, including ones for Zal Yanovsky of the Lovin’ Spoonful, Eric Burdon of the Animals, Wayne Kramer of MC5, Jon Langford of the Mekons, and actor-singer Anthony Newley. Albritton’s unconventional occupation began in 1966 when the Chicago native was a 19-year-old University of Illinois art major and self-described “shy … virginal, goofy girl who wanted to get laid by cute British boys with long hair and tight pants.” A homework assignment to cast something solid that could retain its shape led to her first plaster job — with Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders.
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